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Nine Divisions of the 6th Panzer SS Army, along with seven Divisions of the 5th Panzer Army and eleven Divisons of the 7th Army

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On December 26, 1944, with the 4th Army, General Patton gained access and encirclement of the city. Arriving by the Assenois, some troops thus break through the area around the city and little by little increase theNazi forces. Killed in a car accident in1945, General Patton is buried among his soldiers in Hamm Cemetery nearLuxembourg.

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On December 19, there is violent fighting at Neffe, Wardin and Noville. On the 20th, Bastogne is surrounded. On the 22th, some German emissaries demand the surrender of the American troops, to which General McAuliffe replied " NUTS. Starting on December 23, taking advantage of a clear day, allied planes bombed without stop the concentrations of German troops and parachuted food, weapons, and medical supplies to allies occupying Bastogne. On December 26th, General Patton’s troops break the encirclement of the city after some fierce fighting. Their entry into Bastogne unfortunately did not mean an end to the fighting. The bloody combat was not replaced by the white flag until January 8, 1945, the official date of the end of the Battle of.